Barking Power Station refers to a series of power plants on its former and current site at the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in east London. Original power plant sites, coal-fired A, B and C stations, are on River Road, Creekmouth, on the north bank of the River Thames. These stations closed in the late 1980s and have since been destroyed. The current gas-fired power station (originally known as Barking Reach Power Station) was built further on the Thames River near Dagenham Dock in the early 1990s. The former site of a power plant is being rebuilt as Barking Riverside.
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History Edit
Barking Power plant Edit
Prior to the construction of the Barking A Power Station, the Barking Town Urban District Council operated a small power plant near its office from 1897 until closure in 1927. In 1920, County London Electric Supply Company applied for a permit to build a power plant. at Creekmouth in Barking capable of expansion up to 600 MW. The Barking A Station has 8 C. A. Parsons turbo-generator (4 x 40 MW and 4 X 20 MW) and 22 boilers, plus 2 special reheat boilers. This is in two boiler houses, one of which is all grate grate boilers (6 B & W and 6 Yarrow) and the other is all refined fuel boilers (I.C.L.). The Barking Power Plant opened in 1925, and in 1927 took over from the Urban Barking Town Council station, providing bulk power supplies. When completed, station A is the largest power station in the UK that has been built as a complete station at one time. The Yarrow boilers were canceled in the early 1950s, their capacity being replaced by steam from station B through the steam channel and appropriate regulating equipment. The smoothed fuel boiler was converted into fuel oil around 1964.
The power plant location was selected for easy coal delivery from the Thames River and by train, as well as abundant water supply and space on site for expansion. A cable tunnel was built under the river to supply the south bank with electricity.
B Barking power plant Edit
Barking's original station was extended by building a B station, which began operating at full capacity in 1939. Capacity Station B is 303 MW with 4 x 75 MW B.T.H. turbo-generator plus a small home generator with a capacity of 3.5 MW. Steam conditions are 600 psig and 800'F. The B Station has 16 B & amp; W chain grate boilers, each capable of producing 256,000 pounds of steam per hour. These are arranged in two boiler houses, with 8 boilers each. The power plant was transferred to the London Division of the British Electrical Authority in 1948. Station B closed on March 15, 1976, at that time its power generation capacity was 144 megawatts.
Barking C power plant Edit
The British Electrical Authority built a third station in Creekmouth, completed in 1954. The station was closed on October 26, 1981, at which time the capacity of the plant was 220 MW. All three stations have been destroyed. C Station has three B.T.H. 75 MW turbo-generator operating with steam conditions of 900 psig and 900'F. There are 6 B & amp; W boiler, 5 smoothed and six cyclone furnaces. The crushed fuel boiler was converted into burning oil circa 1960.
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Barking Reach power station Edit
The station is currently located at Checkers Lane in Dagenham, west of Dagenham Breach (pond) and Ford motor work. The station was built between 1992 and 1995 and was the first major station built in London for many years. It is one of the largest independent power plants owned in the UK, capable of producing 1,000 MW of electricity, which is about 2% of the peak electricity demand in England and Wales.
This station uses Combined Cycle Gas Turbine technology, with gas as fuel. The station is owned by Barking Power Limited but is operated and managed by Thames Power Services. Unlike the Creekmouth station, the Dagenham station is a bit far from the river.
In July 2014, operators announced their intention to close the power plant within two years.
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